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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNV Republican Lt. Gov. candidate Mack Miller was dragged out of the Clark County Commission meeting
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Red Mountain
(1,706 posts)and I'm not sure they started it but I'd guess his mouth, sense of entitlement and lack of cooperation were all contributing factors.
brush
(53,475 posts)Sense of entitlement? Really?
Sense-of-entitlement-to-stand-in-the-chamber-while-Black-and-doing-nothing don't you mean?
That's what you're contending?
It's pretty obvious he was the one targeted by the cops as others who were in the chamber at the same time he was are shown in the second video milling around the attack scene unharmed. And several are shouting at the cops that they are "done" for attacking a Lt. Gov. candidate.
Him and others there were telling the commissioners to resign for addressing health misinformation, most likely vaccines and masking. They weren't wearing their masks properly and were in a small room yelling. They asked him to leave multiple times and he just got more belligerent so they picked him up and walked him out. Period. We are in a pandemic that is killing thousands, you can want them handled with kid gloves but I don't.
brush
(53,475 posts)And who can understand what's going on in video? Not enough info. All that info you stated shoud've been in the OP so we knew what was going on.
Eko
(7,170 posts)The other people the police confronted did.
brush
(53,475 posts)what was going on but a Black guy getting the bum rush by police. Which usually what happens.
Tell the whole story.
Eko
(7,170 posts)You could also do a quick google search and find out he is a maskhole. https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/no-mask-nevada-protesters-rally-in-northwest-las-vegas-2091195/attachment/mack-miller-arrives-by-limo-during-a-no-mask-nevada-rally-to-oppose-the-face-mask-mandate-and-a/
https://www.facebook.com/Mack4Nevada/
brush
(53,475 posts)was the Black guy getting bum rushed and injured by the cops, and second video was many voices yelling.
Come on, the OP should make sure people understand the situation.
Eko
(7,170 posts)brush
(53,475 posts)to give context to what was going on, just the bum rush, the scene in the chamber, then the confusing third one with all the shouting.
It's a fail without context to explain what's going on. We can and must do better.
Eko
(7,170 posts)with maskholes and anti-vaxxers. Ive been dealing with them at my job for well over a year and am done with it.
brush
(53,475 posts)the OP tells the whole story. As it is, it doesn't.
Eko
(7,170 posts)I certainly am not calling you anything and when I am not at work I don't have the power to make anyone do anything let alone a anonymous person on DU tell the whole story. I understand that from your perspective the op didn't tell the whole story and while they could have done more to make it clear it was clear to me so I told you what I saw. You may agree or disagree with that and that's ok. I meant no offense to you and if have done so then I apologize.
Keep on keeponing.
Eko.
brush
(53,475 posts)And we've already discussed this. Without any text to explain what's going on, it just looks like cops once again attacking and beating a black guy in one video and just chaos in the other two.
And what floored me in the 3rd video, the one with the black guy shouting and telling the cops to get their hands off of him, what surprised me is the reaction of some DUers, actual DUers, hinting that if the Black guy had just complied...
How is that different than what wingers said about George Floyd? And all the other Black guys killed by cops? "If he had just complied he wouldn't have gotten beaten/killed.
See what I mean. There was no explaination in the OP. The links only came later. And why would we have to google to find out what the OP is about? If a post is made it should be clear and understandable what's going on.
Again, that's not on you.
"How is that different than what wingers said about George Floyd? And all the other Black guys killed by cops? "If he had just complied he wouldn't have gotten beaten/killed." For me its because none of those people were trying to spread an ideology that is enabling a deadly pandemic. Its perspective. I also disagree that the cops attacked and beat him, it appears that they picked him up and moved him out. When he hit the metal scanner they let him down gently. At no time did the video show them hitting him or anything other than moving him. We may disagree but that is what the video shows.
brush
(53,475 posts)They rammed him into metal detector and he was obviously dazed and nearly unconscious as he laid on the floor. That was overkill.
What happened to cuffing him and leading him out and put him in the patrol car to shut him up?
I hope you see it from another perspective. Thanks for the back and forth. I'm through now.
Eko
(7,170 posts)The police hit the metal detector not him.
Thanks,
Eko
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,112 posts)rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Too many people screaming at once.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)pecosbob
(7,511 posts)The group disrupted the meeting. He wasn't wearing a mask. They all got ejected, and he resisted officers. This guy is an unhinged Republican POS. His wing-nut supporters make him out to be a victim for the cameras after he throws a tantrum in the meeting.